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Posted by Oona on February 5, 2011
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Friends, as I was just telling the cast, I am inappropriately excited for this matinee round of TWG.
Why? I’m glad you asked?
1. I’ve managed to wrest the directing baton from Luke’s iron grip. Ha HA! Soon the world will be mine, all MINE! At least for the month of February.
2. We have a small but mighty cast of ringers.
3. The matinees always bring in a ton of kids, and we love kids! And their parents! And their uncles and aunts, grandparents, friends, neighbors, and strange awkward cousins.
The matinee round is, famously, always a bit of a scramble. Basically our actors are asked to show up at the theatre, learn a story, and then perform it about an hour later. It takes hard work and a healthy dose of optimism, both of which our company members have in spades- thank goodness, or we’d be up a creek. Or should I say up one of the many streets that have yet to be plowed? From the snowstorm. Remember when there was that snowstorm?
ANYHOO, some gems staying in from last round, and a great mix of stories joining the runlist, including some oldies but goodies and some new classics. Come check it out!
Say “Monkeys eating Maggots” at the door for $2 off your ticket. Running order after the jump!
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Posted by Luke on January 16, 2011
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
In this week’s episode: Can our trusty author write the TWG blog with his son on his lap???
The Day I Pulled a Muscle is joining the run. It is about a mother/son Pokemon game that gets aggressive.
Whoops, he’s pulling at the power cord!...
From the Berger Park Words @ Play Program, Casey wrote a wonderfully silly poem called Red Rocket Ships. Jason Sperling made it into a song. It’s a zinger. It has maggots, monkeys and a forgetful fast-food employee.
Now he wants that stack of bills!?
Come see this last stupendous show of the round before we go dark for two weeks! (And then return in matinee form.) You will LIKE it.
White Out in the mouth???
Say “Pokemon” at the door for $2 off your ticket.
Mom is awake! What’s this, she’s coming to pick up the baby!!! Hooray!
Running order below
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Posted by Luke on January 10, 2011
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
...by popular demand.
Come see the Monster try everything to try to scare moviegoers.
With only tonight and next Monday left for this round, it may be a brief encore for the Monster. So, see it now!
Also joining the run this week are:
Butterflies and the Sad Wedding - Juliet’s wedding with butterflies is disrupted by robbers!
and
The Worried Dog (dialogue)- the Dog takes a big chance by using the persons’ bathroom!
Be there for all the hilarity.
$2 off at the box office by saying “Elizabeth Taylor”.
Here is the order of plays-
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Posted by Luke on January 3, 2011
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
You guys!
This is your last shot at seeing the TWG holiday show in all it’s sparkly glory before it gradually morphs into a non-holiday show.
This holiday season has witnessed the emergence of some new holiday classics:
Santa and Taco Bell!
The Time We Had a Snowball Fight!
A Girl That Wants to Eat Turkey But Cannot Reach!
And some beautiful classics e.g.
The Time I Ate a Christmas Ball
and
Monica’s Special Christmas Eve
Come for one last dose of holiday goodness, stay for that pose we strike at the end featuring all the major holiday traditions—- IN ONE TABLEAUX.
One tableaux, you guys!
The password for $2 off at the box office is “Rasputin”.
Here is the order of the plays:
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Posted by Luke on December 19, 2010
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
People. For the 12/20 and 12/27 shows, we’re adding even more holiday themed stories to the run. Consider all stops officially pulled out.
And they’re classics, these new stories.
The Time I Ate A Christmas Ball has almost certainly been in every holiday show since it was penned and adapted during W.’s first term. It’s our ‘Free Bird’, It’s our ‘Who’s on First’. It’s our ‘The Day I Stuck My Head in a Barstool’.
The other classic joining the run is only slightly less well known. I’ve put it in each holiday show I’ve directed because I love it. Last year I made my wife put it in the show when she was directing, because I wanted to sing it.
It is, of course, Untitled (Oh My God, I Found My Sister’s Friend)—the beautiful new year’s song where all is right with the world just before the ball drops.
Before you go, here is a picture of The Ultimate Snowball Warrior, portrayed by Curtis Williams.
If you haven’t seen this piece (The Time We Had a Snowball Fight), you must.
On Dec. 20 OR Dec. 27 say “Solid Man” at the box office and you will get $2 off your ticket price.
Running order with links below!
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